o:28760 Interbank Network as a Channel of Credit Contagion in Banks Is Moral Hazard Transferable? en Abstract: The objective of this research is to examine the inter- bank network of clients as a channel for credit risk transmission by groups of banks in Serbia characterized by different levels of credit risk (clusters). Two of the four observed groups of banks have expe- rienced increase in NPLs through the channel of contagion spread in the interbank network. The spread of the infection through the banking network is a consequence of the impact of the economic connection among clients. The third group of banks (banks with high levels of credit risk) takes over the effects of systemic factors and transfers their influence to the second and the first group (banks with average and below-average credit risk level) through the bank- ing network channel. There were different models of bank behaviour, from a group of banks that fully aligned their risk taking with risk capacity to a group of banks that exhibited an excessive risk propen- sity far beyond their own risk-taking capacity. There is also the con- firmation that moral hazard was an important determinant of credit risk and an additional impulse to spread credit contagion. Keywords: Credit Contagion, Interbank Network, Economic Con- nection, Moral Hazard, NPL 1552099 10.2478/jcbtp-2022-0026 1552101 1800-9581 2023-04-11T11:11:59.343Z 44 no 46 Željko Jović Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet 4129127 0000-0002-1008-0732 Milena Lutovac Đaković Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 15640679 0000-0003-1932-071X application/pdf 1775135 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:28760 no yes 16 70 92000001 11A03 Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 11 3 117 135 2022